[lttng-dev] [lttng-modules PATCH] Add uprobes support

[dgoulet@efficios.com (David Goulet)]

+1

Especially because Uprobe is in mainline since 3.5, would be nice to
support it before it gets in 3.8+ ...

Cheers!
David

Mathieu Desnoyers:
> * Yannick Brosseau (yannick.brosseau at gmail.com) wrote:
>> On 2013-01-14 13:05, Josh Stone wrote:
>>> On 01/13/2013 06:40 PM, Yannick Brosseau wrote:
>>>> +	ret = uprobe_register(event->u.uprobe.inode,
>>>> +			event->u.uprobe.offset,
>>>> +			&event->u.uprobe.up_consumer);
>>>> +	uprobe_unregister(event->u.uprobe.inode,
>>>> +			event->u.uprobe.offset,
>>>> +			&event->u.uprobe.up_consumer);
>>> I'm guessing that you're using a Fedora kernel? :)
>> Oh, you're right... I did not realize that the vanilla kernel did not
>> contains those export.
>>>
>>> These functions are not yet exported upstream, but coincidentally I just
>>> posted a patch for that a few days ago:
>>>
>>>   https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1962891/
>>>   https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/13/118
>>>
>>> If there's any more complaint about this, maybe you can chime in to
>>> advocate for lttng's needs too.
>>>
>> Ok, I'll weight in if necessary.
> 
> Yes, we should be able to help out if needed.
> 
> Meanwhile, we could use kallsyms to lookup these symbols and use them,
> as we already do in a couple of header under wrappers/ in lttng-modules.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mathieu
>